The Media Coalition, fabricated up of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA), Private Newspapers and Online Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) and New Media Association of Ghana (NMAG) has denied the accusation that it calm GH₵213,000 from the Jubilee House to organise a columnist conference. Blessed Godsbrain Smart aka 'Captain Smart' had declared on Onua TV and Accra FM that the Media Coalition and its corresponding leaders calm the said bulk to organise the columnist appointment but the accusation is bottomless and frivolous. The Coalition has beatific acknowledgment belletrist to the administration of Onua TV and Accra FM, as able-bodied as Captain Smart for publication

On Tuesday, July 16, 2024, the Media Coalition, accurate by its accomplice - Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), organised a columnist appointment to accuse the accretion access of amateurish practices in the media mural and cited the use of insult and anarchic accent by Captain Smart on his morning appearance on Onua TV, one of the brands in the Media Accepted Group. In acknowledgment to the able self-regulatory alarm by the Coalition, Captain Smart alleged, unfoundedly, on 'The Citizens Show', an Accra FM alive programme transmission on July 17, 2024, that the administration of the Media Coalition calm GH₵213,000 from the Jubilee House to organise the columnist appointment beneath reference

Almost two weeks later, on July 30, 2024, and amoral by time blooper and sobriety, Captain Smart again the unfounded accusation on his morning appearance on Onua TV, added abrogating the acceptability and aggravating the aching of associates of the Media Coalition and their corresponding leaders. Again, Captain Smart fabricated agnate unfounded accusation on his amusing media platforms

The Media Coalition actually denies accession GH₵213,000 or any money from the Jubilee House to organise the said columnist appointment and wishes to accompaniment added and absolutely that there is no atom of accuracy in the accusation fabricated by Captain Smart. To the admeasurement that the accusation is bottomless and frivolous, the Coalition calls on the accepted accessible to apathy it and amusement aforementioned with absolute contempt

The Coalition is additionally abashed by the actuality that the host of 'The Citizens Show' Kwabena Bobie Ansah, did not alarm his bedfellow (on telephone) to adjustment by allurement him to abjure the unfounded allegation; neither did he (host) abstract himself and the media belvedere (Accra FM) from such counterfeit allegation

Rather, the host seemed to be arch Captain Smart on to stoke the blaze of allegation. We are additionally abashed by the actuality that there assume to be no able abstemiousness on Captain Smart, acceptance him to accomplish such unfounded allegations repeatedly. We alarm on the administration of Media Accepted to act actually and accompany Captain Smart to able order

The Media Coalition wishes to reiterate that whilst it will abide to advance for the aegis of media freedom, it will never cull from the advance of media responsibility

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